Its reliability rating, now 56.4 percent, would soar to 76.7 percent.
He noted that the 737 had the industry's highest reliability rating.
The Acadia had average reliability ratings in Consumer Reports' surveys.
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A worthy fate, perhaps, but it would raise hob with Kirby's reliability rating.
Of course, Honda's resale values rival those of Mercedes, but its reliability ratings are better.
"If you're totally intent on buying something with poor reliability ratings," he added, "in that case, you might get something."
National rating agency assigned the company "A+" individual reliability rating (this means high reliability - first level) and "stable" forecast.
By March 2011, Consumer Reports had changed its reliability ratings for the 2001 and 2002 S-Class as having improved to "average".
The Phoenix had a reliability rating of about ninety percent, meaning that in ideal conditions, nine out of ten would hit what they were aimed at.